Tabacco Crazy
The tobacco companies have been getting a lot of bad reviews lately. They are being sued for millions of dollars for smokers' Medicaid bills. I do not understand why they are being sued. The tobacco companies are only trying to make a living like everyone else. Warning labels are put on cigarette packs, and everyone knows about the hazards of smoking. People make the decision to smoke, so why should the tobacco companies take the blame? Tobacco use, along with the association of its danger, has been around as long as the discovery of America. But suddenly the companies are being placed with the blame. According to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center the Indians first used tobacco as a healing drug and at religious ceremonies before Columbus discovered America. When Columbus did arrive in the Easter World he observed the Indians and their use for tobacco. He acquired the plant and its seeds and took them back to Europe where they began cultivating it and using it for their own purposes. They believed that tobacco was a cure all drug, literally. They thought it could cure anything from the common cold to diarrhea to cancer. Around this time smoking tobacco also became a social aspect for the European upper cla
CNN's web page on the history of tobacco states that it was 1930 when German researchers made a statistical correlation between smoking and cancer, and even then the proof was not certain. Only in 1944 did the American Cancer Society begin to warn people about the hazards of smoking, and they even stated "no definite evidence exists." Upon the publication of the Reader's Digest article "Cancer by the Carton" tobacco sales went down for the first time ever. Within two years the tobacco companies created the Tobacco Industry Research Council to find safer ways to produce cigarettes. They came up with the idea of the filtered cigarette and low-tar formulations. The tobacco companies had no intent to poison its customs; however, they were made out to be the bad guys of the situation. ss. Tobacco soon became a major crop in the New Land, mainly Virginia where it was produced for pope smoking, chewing, and snuff. Soon cigarettes became the popular way of getting the daily dose of tobacco. Every since this attack on the industry, tobacco companies have been harassed by the government and the public. According to CNN's web site in 1965 Congress passed an act requiring that a surgeon general's warning be placed on all c
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